mitan.

Brit.

/ˈmiːtə/, U.S.

/ˈmidə/

Forms: 1700s– mita, 1900s– mitta. Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish mita.

Etymology: < American Spanish mita (1570 in a Peruvian source) < Quechua mitʔa turn, successive or alternate order.

Now historical.

In colonial South America: a group of Peruvian or other Indians employed in forced labour by the Spanish colonists, usually for a specified period; the system under which such groups were employed.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > in Spanish American colonies

mita1726

1726 J. Stevens tr. A. de Herrera Tordesillas Gen. Hist. Amer. V. 56 The Mitayos Tindarunas are Tributary Indians, the Curacas, or native Lords have set apart to hire them out to work in the Mines, build Houses, and the like... These they furnish to serve in their Mitas, or Turns, for the Space of two Months, or longer.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1851) II. viii. 102 In Peru, each mita, or division, destined for the mines, remains there six months.

1812 Ann. Reg., Gen. Hist. 161 The inhumanity..of that regulation in the American colonies [of Spain] called the Mitas.

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 147 Mitas of Indians, for the purpose of collecting coca-leaves, were forbidden in 1569.

1919 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 2 12 So great were the abuses arising from this law that..the number of mitayos (Indians in the mitta) rose to a sixth or even a fifth.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 513 The repartimiento system, frequently called the mita in Peru and the cuatequil in New Spain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mita
释义	mitan. Brit. /ˈmiːtə/, U.S. /ˈmidə/ Forms: 1700s– mita, 1900s– mitta. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish mita. Etymology: < American Spanish mita (1570 in a Peruvian source) < Quechua mitʔa turn, successive or alternate order. Now historical. In colonial South America: a group of Peruvian or other Indians employed in forced labour by the Spanish colonists, usually for a specified period; the system under which such groups were employed. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > in Spanish American colonies mita1726 1726 J. Stevens tr. A. de Herrera Tordesillas Gen. Hist. Amer. V. 56 The Mitayos Tindarunas are Tributary Indians, the Curacas, or native Lords have set apart to hire them out to work in the Mines, build Houses, and the like... These they furnish to serve in their Mitas, or Turns, for the Space of two Months, or longer. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1851) II. viii. 102 In Peru, each mita, or division, destined for the mines, remains there six months. 1812 Ann. Reg., Gen. Hist. 161 The inhumanity..of that regulation in the American colonies [of Spain] called the Mitas. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 147 Mitas of Indians, for the purpose of collecting coca-leaves, were forbidden in 1569. 1919 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 2 12 So great were the abuses arising from this law that..the number of mitayos (Indians in the mitta) rose to a sixth or even a fifth. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 513 The repartimiento system, frequently called the mita in Peru and the cuatequil in New Spain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1726
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